Classical Music
Opera Album Review: A Fittingly Fresh First Recording of a Flexible One-Acter by Donizetti’s Teacher
Johann Simon Mayr’s delicious L’Accademia di musica gets a spiffy performance from the “Rossini in Wildbad” Festival.
Like Thin Lizzy, Minx marries metallic thunder with melodic structures and lyrics worth listening to.
This is an album of top-notch orchestral playing. Yet the real star is Karina Canellakis.
The best items in this all-Mozart album are the concertos.
Violinist Maria Ioudenitch seems to know how to get directly at the expressive core of this fare without devolving into showboating or histrionics.
Some of France’s best early-music singers and a splendid period-instrument band make this Zoroastre a perfect introduction to the pleasures of Baroque music.
Jonathan Berger’s remarkable chamber opera about the Mỹ Lai Massacre is a powerful artistic and anti-war statement.
HER | alive.un.dead proves that some stories are best told by trusting the audience’s imagination.
Swiss composer Richard Flury’s engaging comic opera is a celebration of the life spirit, and a criticism of celibacy as a practice that cramps and distorts an individual’s basic humanity.
A Far Cry’s program of new and old music revealed that the simplest gestures can generate wonder.
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